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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3

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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3

George Elliott Howard

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America wrote dozens of different answers to one question: when may a marriage end? The closing volume of Howard's study tracks a century and a quarter of divorce legislation across New England, the South and the frontier states, from 1776 to 1903. Statutes, statistics and migratory divorce, gathered before anyone else thought to. The record behind every modern debate.

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23 chapters

  1. 1A HISTORY OF Matrimonial Institutions CHIEFLY IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ANALYSIS OF THE LITERATURE AND THE THEORIES OF PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
  2. 2ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. 3PART III MATRIMONIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
  4. 4CHAPTER XVII A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
  5. 5I. THE NEW ENGLAND STATES
  6. 6II. THE SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWESTERN STATES[124]
  7. 7III. THE MIDDLE AND WESTERN STATES[346]
  8. 8CHAPTER XVIII PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
  9. 9I. THE FUNCTION OF LEGISLATION
  10. 10II. THE FUNCTION OF EDUCATION
  11. 11BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
  12. 12I. EARLY HISTORY OF MATRIMONIAL INSTITUTIONS
  13. 13II. MATRIMONIAL INSTITUTIONS IN ENGLAND AND UNDER GERMANIC AND CANON LAW
  14. 14III. MATRIMONIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
  15. 15A. MANUSCRIPTS
  16. 16B. BOOKS AND ARTICLES
  17. 17IV. PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
  18. 18V. SESSION LAWS AND COLLECTED STATUTES USED IN CHAPTERS XVI-XVIII.

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